How to Insert Title-Block

Click on integration menu "Insert Title-Block", The Insert Title Block dialog box opens. If you are using the integration for the first time, the Title Type and Page Size will have no values (as shown below).

For this, you need to first configure the title type and page size values which can be used in the drawings. Below are the steps to configure the same:

  1. In the PLM menu / Toolbar, click Additional Options as shown below.
  2. The Additional Options dialog box opens as shown below.

  3. Click Title Blocks. The Integration Title-Blocks dialog box opens.
  4. Click Add in Integration Title-Blocks dialog box.
  5. Enter the values for Title-Type and Page-Size and click Browse. The Select Title-Block File dialog box opens. In this dialog browse to %cfe_client_home%\AutoCAD\Titles folder and select the corresponding Title-Block file. You can create your own Title-Block files and can place here.
  6. Typically the entries in the tables will be as shown below.
  7. Values of A0, A1, etc should exist in the PLM, Page Size.

    From File PLM Metadata

    From File session

  8. Values of Assembly, Sales, etc should exist in the PLM, Title-Ty.

    From File session

  9. As part of additional validation open the file %cfe_client_home%\AutoCAD\AcPlmIntegPref.xml in Internet Explorer to ensure that the entries are available as shown below.
  10. After validation click insert title block and you can see the entries to be selected.
  11. Once you press OK, the selected title-Block will be inserted in the Model space layout of the AutoCAD file.
    Note: In case of AutoCAD Mechanical and AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop, it is possible to insert/use the Title-Blocks that are provided by these applications through the "AMTITLE" command. for this, you need to set the preference "Support Mechanical Desktop Title-Blocks". when you check this option and click on "Insert title-Block", integration will prompt you with the AutoCAD application dialog to insert Title-Block (i.e. dialog shown using AutoCAD "AMTITLE" command). Once selected, integration will proceed with this Title-Block.

    In case a Title-Block (inserted manually using the "AMTITLE" command) already exists in the AutoCAD file, and user clicks on Insert title-Block", then user will asked whether to continue with this existing Title-Block.

    please refer chapter "Mapping Rules" for details on how to perform mapping for the attribute tags in the Title-Blocks.